Motivational Quotes

Goals

To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

- Otto, Herbert A.

Best Quotes about Goals

To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Nightingale, Earl

Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

Austin, Tracy

You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? -- By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...

Mcdonald, John

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal, My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Pasteur, Louis

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Caine, Mark

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Stone, W. Clement

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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Mcdonald, John

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Denis Watley

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Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

Robbins, Anthony

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Brennan, Stephen A.

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The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Givens, Charles J.

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If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

Einstein, Albert

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one frame of mind and for the moment realizes itself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

Williams, Ted

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

Reagan, Ronald

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The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

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Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

Prior, Matthew

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Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Ziglar, Zig

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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

Einstein, Albert

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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.

Lindsay, Bryan

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

Proverb, English

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Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Friedsam, Michael

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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

Nightingale, Earl

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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Arnold Toynbee

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In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

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If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

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Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

DeFrantz, Anita

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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.